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Seventh Row Editors / November 5, 2019

Preview our new ebook Beyond Empowertainment

Preview our new ebook, Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Female Agency, by reading four chapters from the book: one taken from each of the four case studies (on Unsane, Personal Shopper, Thelma, and Raw). Beyond Empowertainment: Feminist Horror and the Struggle for Female Agency spotlights a new generation of female-centred horror classics […]

Unsane, Steven Soderbergh

Scott Wilson / November 5, 2019

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane gives form to society’s systemic sexism

Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane explores systemic sexism by comparing and pairing stalker David Strine with a corrupt medical facility. This is an excerpt from our book, Beyond empowertainment

Raw, We Are What We Are

Rosie McCaffrey / November 5, 2019

‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy in Raw and We Are What We Are

In Raw and We Are What We Are, the cannibalism metaphor is used to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro.

Thelma, Joachim Trier, Eili Harboe

Orla Smith / November 5, 2019

Thelma is more than just a modern Carrie

Thelma has been compared to Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but Trier gives his female lead agency whereas Carrie was simply a victim.

Alex Heeney / November 5, 2019

Personal Shopper conflates depression with technological obsession

In Personal Shopper, the boundary between Maureen and others is both because of technology and merely exacerbated by it.

Feminist horror book, Feminist horror, Seventh Row

Seventh Row Editors / October 29, 2019

Critics survey: What does ‘feminist horror’ mean to you?

Seventh Row asks critics what the term ‘feminist horror’ means to them, in anticipation of our ebook on the topic.

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